Word: pens
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...irresistible unraveling. In The Elephanta Suite, a set of brilliantly evocative and propulsive novellas, he shows us how India, with its furious intensities, its gift for confrontation and its quirky mix of dusty British terms ("jocundity") and the latest American ambitions, might be made for him and his ironic pen. He also reminds us that few travelers can pick up a place with such casual vividness, see Indian script "like washing hanging on a clothesline", or hear both the innocence and threat in "Let we go inside, sir?" or "Having chit, madam?" India is a challenge for many visitors...
...about a film at Toronto can become infectious, creating a festival fever and inducing the captive Hollywood press corps to spread the word. "It's an amazing platform," says Ray. A star who works the Toronto party circuit, as Jamie Foxx did tirelessly in 2004 for Ray and as Penélope Cruz did last year for Volver, gets favorable media coverage simply by being available and photogenic. Even a screw-up, like the broken projector at last year's midnight Borat screening, can be a buzz-builder if the celeb plays it right. Sacha Baron Cohen, who had arrived...
...Miami Democrats like Elena Freyre, a Cuban-American art gallery owner in Little Havana, say they've been trying to tell Democratic candidates to stop parroting the hard-line position. "Obama's people were the first who ever said to me on the phone, ?Wait, let me get a pen and write that down,'" says Freyre. "He's the first to have the cojones to say Bush's policy is wrong, and I think it's going to wake up a lot of moderate Cuban-American voters...
...visits for the category, over three times the size in visits as the next most popular, Allrecipes.com. The popularity of the Food Network's site reveals a likely behavioral pattern - we're watching cooking shows and, unlike the old days, we don't have to sit there with pen and paper in hand. The combination of television cooking and a website that provides the recipes featured on those shows is a powerful combination...
What has been your favorite role so far? -Ashwin Sivanesan in Columbus, OhioThat's difficult because I've been blessed by so many remarkable roles. I've been really, really fortunate so far. Elegy has not been screened yet; I just finished doing that with Penélope Cruz. But my favorite is House of Sand and Fog because it stirred something inside me. I still love the character; it's left its thumbprint on me. They don't always do that, but he did. There was something supremely dignified about him. He was committed to his family and culture...